11.   Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, said cities needed more federal empowerment zones to spur economic development.

12.   Empowerment zones aim to help economically distressed areas through job training, assistance in home buying and tax and other incentives for businesses.

13.   For that reason, we endorse Ford, an energetic community activist who wants more educational improvements, school construction and an empowerment zone for the area.

14.   Gary was recently designated as an empowerment zone by the CLinton administration.

15.   Gore also will lead a conference on empowerment zones in McAllen on Tuesday, and, with his wife, discuss school safety in Dallas on Wednesday.

16.   Gore called on Congress to finance new empowerment zones, urban areas that use tax reductions and other measures to promote job development.

17.   Gore boasted about the empowerment zones that the Clinton administration has set up.

18.   Harry Bowie, co-chairman of the empowerment zone, says there were geographical reasons why the north end of Sunflower was not included.

19.   He crossed Lenox Avenue and visited the office housing the officials who administer the empowerment zone, and then entered Bayou, a well-regarded Cajun Creole restaurant.

20.   He has been active in trying to secure an empowerment zone for Harlem, which could be an important springboard for economic development.